The format of this course will be combined lecture/discussion sessions on a selected set of episodes in American history when government suspended normal constitutional guarantees and imposed deprivations of civil liberties and procedural rights. Cases and materials will be used to illustrate specific crises, together with the challenges raised against such measures as suspension of the privilege of habeas corpus; curbs on freedom of speech and press; arbitrary internment of Japanese-Americans; and (in the case of Hawaii during World War II) the imposition of martial law, with its takeover of administration of justice by Army courts. Recent major cases associated with “war on terror” policies will also be discussed. A short paper will be required for the course.